[libvirt] virsh/virt-install for dummies

Hi, I am frustrated searching for a quick-start documentation for virsh, just to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated! Here is what I did: - Compile and install libvirt, virt-manager, virt-install and virt-viewer from source code. This is done (on Ubuntu 8.04). - Now I want to do install a new VM with QEMU or KVM. I got the below error with virt-install: # virt-install -c qemu:///system --name jeos2 --ram 500 --file img.jeos2 --cdrom jeos-8.04.1-jeos-i386.iso Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:19:10 ERROR virConnectOpen() failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 496, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 345, in main conn = cli.getConnection(options.connect) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 92, in getConnection return libvirt.open(connect) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 139, in open if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed How to fix this? Perhaps I need to run libvirtd before using virsh??? What frustrates me is that there seems no documentation about this process at libvirt.org at all (?). Final question: I have an old QEMU image. How to "import" it to virsh script? Is there any easy way to do that? Thanks, Jun